Robert L. Fried is executive director of the Upper Valley Educators Institute and author of The Passionate Teacher. Michelle Malvey is a contributing author of the paper, The Ability to Teach in Stressful Times. She has been an educator for 26 years as a teacher, school psychologist, and currently as an elementary principal. Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher librarian at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, IA.